Paulius Plausinaitis Wins Massive WSOP Circuit Online Main Event

The 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit $1,7000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion attracted a large subject of 6,395 whole entries, surpassing the $10 million assure to create a last prize pool of $10,327,925. In the top, Lithuania’s Paulius Plausinaitis emerged victorious with the WSOPC gold ring and the first-place prize of $1,236,361.

The occasion featured a number of beginning flights to select from, with 1,112 gamers surviving to day 2. The high 700 finishers made the cash, with a min-cash being price $4,107. It took over seven hours to slim the sector from over a thousand gamers all the way down to a last desk of 9 rivals. When the mud settled, Plausinaitis sat within the chip lead with Artem Prostak and WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong having the next-largest stacks.

Prostak earned the primary knockout on the last desk by eliminating ‘BetAddict’ in ninth place ($123,106). Cheong saved tempo by eliminating ‘DaiMing141319’ because the eighth-place finisher, sending the Chinese participant to the digital rail with $164,165.

Cheong continued his climb up the leaderboard by busting Romanian bracelet winner Alexandru Papazian in seventh place. Cheong picked up pocket jacks within the huge blins and referred to as Papazian’s shove from the small blind. Papazian’s A-5 offsuit failed to enhance and he earned $218,917 for his newest deep run.

Prostak misplaced a race with pocket queens towards an opponent’s A-Okay suited to slip down the leaderboard a bit. He then fell all the way in which to the underside of the chip counts when his pocket aces have been cracked by the pocket jacks of ‘likeboy’ after the entire chips went in preflop. Prostak was left fairly brief after that hand, and was eradicated in sixth place ($291,931) not lengthy after.

Cheong earned his third knockout of the day when his A-Okay held up towards the Okay10 of Finland’s Joni Jouhkimainen. Cheong overtook the chip lead from Paulius Plausinaitis, with every of the 2 bigger stacks having roughly 4 occasions as many chips as the 2 shorter gamers.

Cheong continued so as to add to his lead by busting ‘likeboy’ in fourth place. The smaller stack acquired his final chips in good, with A-J dominating the Q-J of Cheong. The Q-Q-J flop gave Cheong a full home, although, and ‘likeboy’ was drawing useless after the flip didn’t deliver an ace. They earned $519,134 for his or her sturdy displaying.

Cheong misplaced an all-in versus the brief stack throughout three-handed play after which slipped additional down the leaderboard. He finally was eradicated in a battle of the blinds. He shoved with A4 from the small blind and Plausinaitis referred to as with QQ within the huge blind. Plausinaitis made aset of queens by the river to eradicate Cheong in third place ($692,276).

With that Plausinaitis took greater than a 5:1 chip lead into heads-up play towards ‘turkey1’. The shorter stack participant discovered some key double-ups and was in a position to overtake the lead briefly, however Plausinaitis was in a position to regain an enormous chip benefit by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. The final eight or so huge blinds of ‘turkey1’ went in preflop with Q9. Plausinaitis referred to as with A10 and the board ran out 933A8. Plausinaitis secured the pot and the title with aces and threes, whereas ‘turkey1’ earned $923,165 because the runner-up finisher.

Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded on the last desk: